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osarabaThere was absolutely no reason I should have wasted my $10 to see Blade II in a Manhattan movie theater. Especially since Louie was coming to sleep over my house afterwards, we could just as easily have wasted $6 in Queens and put the other $4 to good use! Ick.
SPOILER!
I can’t decide if Blade II was better or worse than Queen of the Damned. Maybe I’ll just leave it at a tie. It was inconsistent: one guy changed into one of those "Reaper" things after 20 minutes, then another guy changed after almost a day. Blade was weak!!! I was so pissed off by the fact that he was sympathetic toward that woman vampire – I don’t remember her name – the one whose brother was the original Reaper. I mean, he’s a vampire hunter; sure there are a lot of stories where a vampire hunter either falls for a vampire or gets turned into a vampire themselves, and you like it or you’re rooting for the vampires, but this was not supposed to be one of them! I mean, in the last movie he was weak about the female lead, but she was human, so it was in character. The fact that he let himself go about a vampire – female or not – was out of character for him, in my opinion.
Then there was the issue of the special effects. They were great special effects. But they were so NOT what I was looking for in this movie! Do you remember in the first movie, the beginning where Blade goes into this club and wreaks havoc, resulting in massive amounts of spraying blood all over the place? Not to mention the blood coming out of the shower heads? Well, that’s what I liked about it!!! Blood, blood, more blood, and lots of it! With no excuses! I was looking forward to the blood! And what do I get? The vampires blow away in the breeze like a stubbed-out cigarette butt.
Which brings me to one of the two points that pissed me off the most: the vampires were easier to kill than the freaking humans! Blade had to barely graze those vampires with a silver bullet and they’d be reduced to ash in seconds, but the one human – the lawyer – who was killed had to be shot full of holes before he dropped down, dead. And he probably lingered for a while before he actually died because he wasn’t shot in the brain. What a rip off! Vampires are supposed to be hard to kill! Otherwise, what makes Blade such a big bad vampire hunter if they’re so easy to kill? The police could use silver loads and then they could kill the wimpy vampires themselves! Which brings me to the second point that pissed me off the most: To the previous statement, you could say, "But the reason only Blade can kill the vampires is because they’re too quick and strong for normal humans." But evidently, that is no longer true! After all, if it were, the vampires in the movie would have used the superior strength and speed to do things like jumping up to the next level instead of using a ladder to go all of 6 feet. Not to mention the fact that an old human guy with a bum leg beat up one of the big bad vampires! ::bangs head against a brick wall:: It was at this point in the movie that both Angelica and I finally said – out loud because we were so disgusted with the way things had been going – "...but he’s a vampire!"
What a horrible, horrible movie. My father told me that it got two stars, to which I replied, "How did that happen? It should have gotten 1/2!"
In any case, I did have fun during the movie making fun of it and criticizing it with Angelica. I swear, that’s one of the best things about going to the movies with her… everyone else tells me to shut up, but she makes fun of the movie with me! (In case you haven’t gotten it, I’ve hardly met a movie I liked.) I spend way too much (read: all) of the movie looking for editing mistakes. Like that time in Grease when you can see the reflection of the microphone in the jukebox…. I was dragged to see that horrid movie in the theaters when it was re-released, but it was kicking and screaming I went. But never mind that.
After the movie we did our usual, went to HMV, but there was no way I was going to buy the soundtrack to Blade II. I hated the music. Well, okay, I didn’t hate it, but it’s rap, R&B, etc.; not my thing.
Oh, speaking of music! Today at GCS I went to the bathroom briefly and when I was walking back toward the store, some guy whipped out a postcard from CBGB’s and told me to check out his band. I think it was because he saw me wearing my Metallica sweatshirt. Kawaii, ne? He’s playing Tuesday night at 8pm. I wonder if I can/should make it? I’ve never been there, but if he saw my Metallica shirt and thinks I might like his band, then maybe I will.
Decisions, decisions.
SPOILER!
I can’t decide if Blade II was better or worse than Queen of the Damned. Maybe I’ll just leave it at a tie. It was inconsistent: one guy changed into one of those "Reaper" things after 20 minutes, then another guy changed after almost a day. Blade was weak!!! I was so pissed off by the fact that he was sympathetic toward that woman vampire – I don’t remember her name – the one whose brother was the original Reaper. I mean, he’s a vampire hunter; sure there are a lot of stories where a vampire hunter either falls for a vampire or gets turned into a vampire themselves, and you like it or you’re rooting for the vampires, but this was not supposed to be one of them! I mean, in the last movie he was weak about the female lead, but she was human, so it was in character. The fact that he let himself go about a vampire – female or not – was out of character for him, in my opinion.
Then there was the issue of the special effects. They were great special effects. But they were so NOT what I was looking for in this movie! Do you remember in the first movie, the beginning where Blade goes into this club and wreaks havoc, resulting in massive amounts of spraying blood all over the place? Not to mention the blood coming out of the shower heads? Well, that’s what I liked about it!!! Blood, blood, more blood, and lots of it! With no excuses! I was looking forward to the blood! And what do I get? The vampires blow away in the breeze like a stubbed-out cigarette butt.
Which brings me to one of the two points that pissed me off the most: the vampires were easier to kill than the freaking humans! Blade had to barely graze those vampires with a silver bullet and they’d be reduced to ash in seconds, but the one human – the lawyer – who was killed had to be shot full of holes before he dropped down, dead. And he probably lingered for a while before he actually died because he wasn’t shot in the brain. What a rip off! Vampires are supposed to be hard to kill! Otherwise, what makes Blade such a big bad vampire hunter if they’re so easy to kill? The police could use silver loads and then they could kill the wimpy vampires themselves! Which brings me to the second point that pissed me off the most: To the previous statement, you could say, "But the reason only Blade can kill the vampires is because they’re too quick and strong for normal humans." But evidently, that is no longer true! After all, if it were, the vampires in the movie would have used the superior strength and speed to do things like jumping up to the next level instead of using a ladder to go all of 6 feet. Not to mention the fact that an old human guy with a bum leg beat up one of the big bad vampires! ::bangs head against a brick wall:: It was at this point in the movie that both Angelica and I finally said – out loud because we were so disgusted with the way things had been going – "...but he’s a vampire!"
What a horrible, horrible movie. My father told me that it got two stars, to which I replied, "How did that happen? It should have gotten 1/2!"
In any case, I did have fun during the movie making fun of it and criticizing it with Angelica. I swear, that’s one of the best things about going to the movies with her… everyone else tells me to shut up, but she makes fun of the movie with me! (In case you haven’t gotten it, I’ve hardly met a movie I liked.) I spend way too much (read: all) of the movie looking for editing mistakes. Like that time in Grease when you can see the reflection of the microphone in the jukebox…. I was dragged to see that horrid movie in the theaters when it was re-released, but it was kicking and screaming I went. But never mind that.
After the movie we did our usual, went to HMV, but there was no way I was going to buy the soundtrack to Blade II. I hated the music. Well, okay, I didn’t hate it, but it’s rap, R&B, etc.; not my thing.
Oh, speaking of music! Today at GCS I went to the bathroom briefly and when I was walking back toward the store, some guy whipped out a postcard from CBGB’s and told me to check out his band. I think it was because he saw me wearing my Metallica sweatshirt. Kawaii, ne? He’s playing Tuesday night at 8pm. I wonder if I can/should make it? I’ve never been there, but if he saw my Metallica shirt and thinks I might like his band, then maybe I will.
Decisions, decisions.
